Category : SpaceX

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These ships catch waves (and rockets) instead. THAICOM 8 first-stage engine core arriving in port. SpaceX SpaceX is known for its spaceships—from the Dragon capsule that resupplies the space station, to the proposed interplanetary transport system. But it’s the company’s more traditional, water-going vessels that keep the lofty dreams of affordable ...

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Oh gosh, this is really happening. Falcon Heavy on the launchpad. SpaceX It’s been nearly seven years since Elon Musk first unveiled the concept for his Falcon Heavy rocket, the largest to launch since the Saturn V. Saturn V’s were NASA’s titans of the launchpad, propelling Apollo missions to the moon ...

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SpaceX’s McGregor facilities in Central Texas were rocked this Sunday as a Merlin engine exploded during testing. Two of the facility’s test bays were damaged, but nobody was harmed according to SpaceX. Nine Merlin engines on the Falcon 9’s first stage. Image credits SpaceX. An explosion on Sunday (November 4) rocked ...

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Elon Musk hasn’t exactly kept it a secret that he plans to launch his Falcon Heavy rocket sometime this November. He announced in July that the massive rocket would have its first launch ever this year, though he gave no specific date. Now NASA’s Kennedy Space Center has an information page ...

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SpaceX, the most successful space company in the world, is just a few steps away from launching the most powerful rocket in the world, the impressive Falcon Heavy. After a successful stating test in May, SpaceX fired Falcon Heavy’s three first stage cores at the company’s facility in McGregor, Texas. The ...

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Roscosmos chief Igor Komarov (left) with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: Kremlin. Ever since NASA retired its shuttle program in 2011, the Roscosmos, ‘the Russian NASA’, has been enjoying a steady uptick in revenue as new orders kept piling up. Only a year earlier, SpaceX had performed Falcon 9’s maiden voyage. ...

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SpaceX kicked off launches on Friday afternoon at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the launch of the Bulgaria-Sat1 on a previously used Falcon 9 rocket. The plan is to conclude the weekend with a Sunday afternoon launch of satellites on a new Falcon 9 rocket. If both launches go ...

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GEOINT: In news sure to rock the launch industry, the mighty United Launch Alliance today failed to be named as the company launching the X-37B spaceplane. Instead, Elon Musk’s SpaceX will carry it for the first time, marking what is believed to be the company’s heaviest national security launch to date. ...

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The launch window opens on Sunday afternoon. The Electron rocket may launch for the first time on May 21, 2017. If it does, it probably won’t be wearing these roller skates. Rocket Lab Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket is only 55 feet tall. That’s puny compared to SpaceX’s 230-foot Falcon 9, but ...

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SpaceX scrubbed a planned Sunday morning launch of a payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The spy satellite, known as NROL-76, was to have been launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four-hour window for a launch Monday starts at 7 a.m. EDT. If the launch Monday goes as ...

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Two private citizens have reportedly paid up for a lunar jaunt SpaceX The Falcon Heavy is expected to fly for the first time later in 2017, and could carry humans to the moon by the end of 2018, according to SpaceX. SpaceX is already on track to make history by becoming ...

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SpaceX launched almost 5,500 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station on Sunday morning after scrubbing its Saturday attempt because of a potential issue with its Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket lifted off at 9:39 a.m. EST from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the Hawthorne, Calif.-based space company’s ...

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An already tense relationship between the United States and Turkey appears to be under more strain after a top Trump administration official accused Turkey of spreading what he called extreme ...